The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-03
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
MIR. IHEALEY MOVES THAT THE
FIRBT CLAUaE OF
TO Indicate what Portions of Ire
land Ii Shall Apply To.

LONDON, May I'm the House oil
: Commons tonight Mr.. Healey moved
that the first clause Of the crimes bill
be so amended as to indicate clearly
to what portions Of Ireland the bill
would be applicable. He suggested
that the words proclaimed districts"
be omitted and that "Kerry, London
derry and Belfast" be inserted in their
stead.
Mr.. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, declined TO sccede to this pro-
posal. He said the government in
tended to apply the clause to all parts
OF Ifelaad where the prevalence OF
crime justified such action.
Mr.. Hesley asked il blood stained
Belfast, where troops had been shot
and policemen murdered, was to 90
tree, while the miserable, rack rented
districts in the southwest were to be
punished.
Mr.. Bsliour replied that the govern.
ment " ould exercise perfect imparti.
ality in suppressiLg disorcer every.
where.
Mr.. La5ouchere said the scope
and aim OF the bill was to crush
out the Nationalist, leaving ths
OraDgemen 10 do anything they liked.
The administration OF the Law Was go
bound up with the Orange faction
Il at 1t could not be impartial.
Mr.. Gladstone suggested that tie
words proclaimed districts" remain,
but that the districts be defined under
the other clauses OF the bill. The
answer lof Mr.. Balfour that all dis
trlcts would be treated impartially WAS
not sufficient, because the Minister
had often referred to the particular
parts of Ireland where the bill was
meant to operate. No doubt the pso.
pie of Belfast regarded with disgust
aud horror the prevalence OF disorder
in their midst, but the same apology
was equally good for other districts
Hear, hesrl The conduct of some
persons in Belfast recently stained the
name OF Ireland more than the con
duct OF the people Of any other part
OF Ireland had. [Oheers.
Lord Randolph ChuIchill eaid the
suggestion Mr.. Gladstone had made
might have been valuable, but it's
value had been destroyed by the rais-
ing OF points which were calculated to
lead 10 controversy. Mr.. Gladstone
had made himself party to the in
sinusion that the government to sp-
ply the clause only to certain parts of
Ireland aud leave Belfast ont. There
had been no disorder in Belfast, but
the Law had not been arrested. There
was no analogy between the riots in
Belfast and the "moonlighters" in
Kerry, for which not single person
had been made amepable to justice&
No one would venture 10 assert that
the juries in the North OF Ireland
had failed to do their duty, as was
often the case with juries in The South
of Ireland. To put the diabolical
outrsges of the South OF Ireland, as
Mr.. Gladstone did, on the same level
as the disturbances in Belfast was to |
condone aud apologize for these out
RACES. [Oheersl.
Mr.. Healey replied that over 800 per-
sons were manned for life and some
killed in the Belfast riots, and that
only few Of the riots had been pub
lished. He said the statement was
untrue that there had bssn no con- |
victions in Kerry. There had been
over twenty.
Mr.. Holmes said that not q single
"moonlighter" had ever been con-
victed. It was only by change OF
venue that any convictions could be
obtained.
Mr.. Healey postponed his motion in
Difference to Mr.. Glsdstone's sugges-
tion.